marine biology
Also known as marine animal, marine animals, marine ecosystem
scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water
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Marine biology is the scientific study of organisms that live in oceans and other saltwater or brackish bodies of water. It matters because the ocean covers most of Earth's surface and contains the vast majority of life on our planet, making it essential to understand these ecosystems and the creatures within them.
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Research
73,432 papers- Marine biology: Ageing a 'living fossil'.Current biology : CB · 2021Choat JHDOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.06.092
- Marine molecular biology: an emerging field of biological sciences.ReviewBiotechnology advances · 2008Thakur NL, Jain R, Natalio F et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2008.01.001
- Genome Mining and Synthetic Biology in Marine Natural Product Discovery.Marine drugs · 2020Costantini MDOI: 10.3390/md18120615
- Linking marine biology and biotechnology.ReviewCurrent opinion in biotechnology · 2002de Nys R, Steinberg PDDOI: 10.1016/s0958-1669(02)00311-7
Article
Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms that inhabit the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy.
A large proportion of all life on Earth lives in the ocean. The exact size of this "large proportion" is unknown, since many ocean species are still to be discovered. The ocean is a complex three-dimensional world, covering approximately 71% of the Earth's surface. The habitats studied in marine biology include everything from the tiny layers of surface water in which organisms and abiotic items may be trapped in surface tension between the ocean and atmosphere, to the depths of the oceanic trenches, sometimes 10,000 meters or more beneath the surface of the ocean.